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Speaker 1: Another one of those sensible moves I reckon this week

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Speaker 1: with this amendment coming to the Climate Change Response Act

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Speaker 1: and to make sure that, as we've been talking about,

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Speaker 1: agg does not enter the ETS emissions trading scheme. In

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Speaker 1: a side note, by the way, the report the previous

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Speaker 1: government commission to look at how to handle agriculture around

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Speaker 1: climate change, it was called ekawacanoa. Did I get that right? Echauakanoa.

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Speaker 1: Now you've forgotten the hay part. Hey, ekaquacanoa. Now tell

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Speaker 1: me what that means. Just tell me what it means.

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Speaker 1: Translate that. Does anybody know what that means? For goodness sake?

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Speaker 1: And how simply it's a good example of how simply

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Speaker 1: peppering if you touchy fee the phrases change nothing when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the language. So we will need to find,

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Speaker 1: I guess, a new way to work out where agriculture

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Speaker 1: fits into climate change. But here's the key point that

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Speaker 1: the current government frequented by farmers of course by the

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Speaker 1: likes of Andrew Hoggart, that they get that the previous

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Speaker 1: government didn't get. When it comes to farming, We globally

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Speaker 1: are as good as it gets. If we made farming

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Speaker 1: needlessly hard here we wouldn't produce as much, which was

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Speaker 1: always a stupid idea, given we sell what we make

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Speaker 1: and that's called foreign income. And we don't sell, we eat.

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Speaker 1: And if we made it too hard to farm, we

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Speaker 1: would still need to eat. It would simply be grind

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Speaker 1: by somebody else who isn't as good as we are.

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Speaker 1: What's the point in that? And then we get to

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Speaker 1: the science of it all. Punishing people for a problem

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Speaker 1: that science is already and will increasingly help, if not address,

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Speaker 1: is pointless. The obsession around the Powis Accord and cutting

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Speaker 1: emissions at the expense of all else has already played

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Speaker 1: out disastrously, of course, in oil and gas and our

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Speaker 1: ability to turn the lights on or not on a

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Speaker 1: cold winter's morning. Last thing we needed was a drop

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Speaker 1: in agriculture. So the Australian opposition you might have noted

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Speaker 1: already this week, is starting to talk about bailing on

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Speaker 1: the Paris Deel because it's unobtainable. We signed up to

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Speaker 1: things we couldn't do and labored in the peer to

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Speaker 1: care who they wrecked while chasing that illusion. Reality and

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Speaker 1: common sense is back, and not a moment too soon

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